Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | VIII. Wedded Love | Sonnets
I. “My Love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die” | | James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| | | MY Love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die; | |
| Albeit I ask no fairer life than this, | |
| Whose numbering-clock is still thy gentle kiss, | |
| While Time and Peace with hands unlockèd fly,— | |
| Yet care I not where in Eternity | 5 |
| We live and love, well knowing that there is | |
| No backward step for those who feel the bliss | |
| Of Faith as their most lofty yearnings high: | |
| Love hath so purified my being’s core, | |
| Meseems I scarcely should be startled, even, | 10 |
| To find, some morn, that thou hadst gone before; | |
| Since, with thy love, this knowledge too was given, | |
| Which each calm day doth strengthen more and more, | |
| That they who love are but one step from Heaven. | | | | |
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